Fall Recruiting News: How will Alabama finish? Offense.

By Jason Argo

Although Alabama is only halfway into the 2008 football season, the Tide is nearly three-quarters of the way finished with the 2009 recruiting class.  What remains to be seen is how strong Bama will finish this season and the 2009 recruiting class.

I’ll go ahead and tell you that I have the same answer for both questions.

Strong.

In the same way I see Bama with a top five finish this season, I again see Saban and the coaching staff pulling in another top five recruiting class.

We may lose a game or a big time prospect we really want, but the end results will speak for themselves… in only two years, we are laying the foundation of the team that Saban envsioned when he first arrived in Tuscaloosa.

A team that nobody wants to play.

We are making that name for ourselves the old fashioned way… in the trenches.

That’s right—no gimmick offense or trick plays. 

We line up and smash the other team in the mouth. Knowing that the only way to accomplish this feat is having some “big nasties in the trenches” leads us to our first outlook in the 2009 recruiting class. The offensive line.

Offensive Line

Remember the name Tyler Love? How about Barret Jones or John Michael Boswell?

In case those names don’t ring a bell, they are three of the highly regarded offensive lineman that signed with Alabama earlier this year. Saban and his staff are again loading up on the offensive line with five verbals from offensive line prospects.

D.J. Fluker was the first commitment for the 2009 class and early on was considered a DT prospect. Fluker is a massive guy standing 6′7 and weighing in at 325 pounds and after his move to offensive tackle for Foley High School his stock has shot through the roof in regards to the best offensive lineman for the 2009 recruiting classes.

While Saban and the staff haven’t made a decision yet on which side of the ball Fluker will play, but my opinion is that D.J. will make an outstanding Offensive Tackle for Alabama and will likely start at that position first.

The latest commitment on the Offensive Line for Bama is Anthony Steen

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